Nanni

I wish I presently had a chance to use a phrase like "perversely retentive memory."

Having had time to study my au_bingo card, I'm mostly wondering what possessed me not to strike "Western". Arrrrrgh. What do I do with that? Do I give in and write Sam the Freedman's Bureau employee/counselor and falconer on the side, and Steve, his quiet, charismatic artist friend who came west/south because he's dying of tuberculosis and this is an attempt to stave it off? Something something something orphaned birds! Something something something badness something something something I lack a plot. I've been wanting to write that for ages, but I haven't because I fear I won't do it justice! Maybe I should just dive in.

For "Alternate History: Someone Never Died" I obviously need to do a quick canon review and then write Dil and her epic struggle against LONG SLEEVES. NO NO NO NOT THAT. I could probably write it even without the review, but review is safest.

For "Historical: Feudal Japan", I need to find stuff on daily life for the artisan class and children in... ... .... ....Some arbitrarily chosen point within this broad time range, and then write the Yotsuba!& story that is basically the comic, only several centuries earlier.

For "Other: Prison" I seem to be leaning towards classic New Mutants and more specifically Dani Moonstar: Mutant Political Dissident and Rahne Sinclair, still freaked about being a mutant and in vast denial meeting her, giant girl crush and politics ensue. Yeah, I need to review canon for that too.

For "Other: Crossover", I think I'll mash up G1 Transformers and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Because! Aang and Beachcomber. Think about it! Aang and Beachcomber. Also, they'd have crash landed in the Fire Nation, I think, what with all the volcanoes, and I enjoy making Zuko cry.

"Other: Film Noir" really needs to be XXXHolic. I'm still working out my thoughts on that one.

Aaaaand that is what I have so far.